Dell vostro 3500 and Fedora 13

Hardware

• Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 350M(2.26GHz, Dual Core, 4T, 3MB L3)
• 3GB (1X2G+1X1G) DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM, 2 DIMM
• 320GB Hard Drive, 7200 RPM

• Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
• Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g wireless
• 8X DVD+/-RW Drive for N-Series
• Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Module
• 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery

Fedora 13 on dell vostro 3500

Installation

Fresh installation using Fedora 13 live usb works.

Details of lsmod,lspci,lsusb and cpuinfo

lsmod

lspci

lsusb

cpuinfo

Desktop Environment

I have tried Gnome, Gnome shell, Compiz fusion and sugar on my laptop everything works well.

Sound

Sound works by default.

VLC

Vlc 1.0.6 crashed initially , ran vlc using ‘MALLOC_CHECK=1 vlc’ to rectify the problem.

Wired network

Fedora uses r8169 module and it works

Wireless

Wireless won’t work by default, need to install kmod-wl package from rpmfusion non free repository.

Touchpad

Works fine. Tapping is not enabled by default, enable it by visiting System->Preferences->Mouse->Touchpad

Webcam

Webcam works. Clicked some pictures with cheese.

Bluetooth

Works. Transferred some files to my mobile.

Multimedia keys

Multimedia keys response is poor. (Play, pause,next,previous,stop,volume buttons ) I don’t know whether its the fault of my machine, because i can increase the volume with ease but cannot reduce it.

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